Agenda

• Trends

• The Cloud OS

• Overview

• File Services and Storage

• Networking

• Clustering

• Hyper-V

• Windows PowerShell

• WDS

• Directory Services & Security

Transformational trends

The Cloud OSModern platform for the world’s apps

Windows Server 2012 R2: Overview

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Users can sync their work data to their devices.

Users can register their devices to be able to sync data when IT enforces conditional access

IT can publish access directly through a reverse proxy, or conditional access can be enforced via device registration through the Web Application Proxy

IT can configure a File Server to provide Work Folder sync shares for each user to store data that syncs to their devices, including integration with Rights Management

IT can selectively wipe the corporate data from Windows 8.1 clients

Devices

Apps & Data

Active Directory discoverability provides users Work Folders location

SMB Automatic rebalancing of Scale-Out File Server Clients

Improved performance of SMB direct

Improved SMB event messages

VHDX files as shared storage for guest clustering

Hyper-V Live migration over SMB

SMB bandwidth management

Multiple SMB instances on a Scale-Out File Server

SMB 1.0 is an option

DFS Namespace and DFS

Replication

PowerShell!

DFS Replication WMI Provider

Database cloning for initial Sync

Database corruption recovery

Cross-file RDC disable

File staging tuning

Preserved File Restoration

Unexpected shutdown database recovery improvements

Membership disabling improvement

iSCSI Target Server Virtual Disks enhancements

Manageability enhancements

Improved optimization to allow disk-level caching

Scalability limits

Local mount functionality (removed feature)

Storage Spaces Tiered Storage spaces

Write-back caching

Flexible resiliency options

Data Deduplication VDI Support

Yes, CSV is now supported

Optimization of OPEN files

Improved optimization performance

Improved read/write performance

DHCP DNS registration enhancements

DNS PTR registration options

Updated Windows PowerShell cmdlets

DNS Enhanced zone level statistics

Enhanced DNSSEC support

PowerShell enhancements

IPAM Role based access control

Virtual address space management

Enhanced DHCP Server Management

External database support (SQL support)

Upgrade and migration support

PowerShell!!

Hyper-V Virtual Switch Hyper-V Virtual Switch extended port ACLs

Hyper-V Network Virtualization coexists with third party forwarding

extensions for the Hyper-V Virtual Switch

Traffic bottlenecks to VMs are reduced with vRSS

Network tracing is streamlined and provides more detail

Windows Server Gateway Virtual Machine software router that allows network traffic routing

between virtual and physical networks, including the internet

Clustering Shared Virtual Hard Disk

Virtual Machine drain on shutdown

Virtual Machine network health detection

CSV improvements

Less dependancy on AD

Quorum improvements

Cluster node health detection

Possibility to turn off Ipsec encryption for inter-node cluster comm’s

Cluster Dashboard

Hyper-V Shared virtual hard disk

Resizing virtual hard disks

Storage Quality of Service

Live Migrations

Virtual Machine generation

Integration Services

Export

Enhanced Session mode

Hyper-V Replica

Linux Support

Hyper-V Management

Automatic Virtual Machine Activation

RDS Session Shadowing

Online storage deduplication

Improved RemoteApp behavior

Quick reconnect for Remote Desktop clients

Improved compression and bandwidth usage

Dynamic display handling

RemoteFX virtualized GPU supports DX11.1

PowerShell Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Save-help

Windows PowerShell debugger

Additional bugfixes and enhancements

WDS PowerShell support

Directory Services & Security Single Sign-On

Work from anywhere

Multi-factor authentication

Multi-factor access control

OAuth 2.0 Support

Security

Group Policy

Sign up

Datacenter B

System Center

Virtual

Machine

Manager

Hyper-V Replica replicates changes

Health Monitoring

Orchestrates recovery plan for VMs or services

in the event of an outage

Create a recovery plan

Create

recovery plan

Datacenter A

System Center

Virtual

MachineManager

AD

SQL

Exc

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Configure

AD

SQL

Exc

h

Currently using System Center Data Protection Manager.

Only a few servers that need protection.

Currently no back up solution or replacing a competing product.

Use the Windows Server backup tools.

Windows Azure Backup